plant took the machine off their hands." Owen Matheson was employed by the power company to operate the engine. Ann Jones Gardner made the following note in her scrapbook : "Our home was the first house wired for electricity in town, so of c o m e...

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Obesity is a documented health concern that affects more than 300 million adults throughout the world (Haslam & James, 2005). That is just a portion of those included in the 1.1 billion people...

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and many would prefer not to work with obese patients (Schwartz et al., 2003). In a study of health-care professionals that work with obese patients, it was found that women have a higher anti-fat bias than men...